(Day 613) Swords of Iron – “Temple Mount Apartheid?”

Chaim starts by mentioning that US President Donald Trump has flatly dismissed a recent “counter-offer” made by Iran in nuclear negotiations, which essentially adds up to the Iranians being allowed to do whatever they want and the US leaving them alone.

Chaim says that they’re not going to get this deal and they’re not going to get nuclear weapons.

On that note, Chaim mentions that US CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla has declared that there are plans ready to attack Iran, possibly in cooperation with Israel, if the diplomatic efforts fail.

Even before that eventuality, Israel is continuing to strike the Houthis in Yemen because they continue firing ballistic missiles at Israel. This latest strike was conducted using missile frigates, instead of air strikes as is usually the case. This was done for several reasons, and demonstrated Israeli options beyond traditional means.

At the same time, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Western countries are putting sanctions on two Israeli Ministers, Ithamar Ben Gvir and Bezelal Smotrich, which is a bad sign and almost unprecedented in the history of diplomatic relations between democratic countries.

Next Chaim talks about how he has been in many places in Lebanon and Gaza and everywhere he goes he sees pictures of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which are built on top of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. This is the most holy place in the world for Jews, for all kinds of historical, theological and cultural reasons. On the other hand, the Muslims are interested in it only because of some traditional beliefs about it that were not considered very important for most of Muslim history. Most of the world’s Muslims totally ignored this place for hundreds of years until Jewish people took physical control of it in the June 1967 Six-Day War, then all of a sudden all kinds of “ancient traditions” about how important it is in Islam cmae to light.

The Hamas attacks on October 7th, 2023, were called “The Al-Aqsa Flood” by Hamas, because they wanted to tie what they were doing to this site in the popular imagination.

Chaim talks a little more about the Temple Mount complex, describing the different places where Jews are designated to pray, the tunnels that run underneath the area, and the different shrines and pathways that lead up to the Temple Mount and around it.

He says that what has happened there is a form of self-inflicted apartheid, where Moslems are allowed to pray on this site while Jews are not.

Next Chaim takes note that it is Day 613 of this war, and there are 613 commandments in the Bible, so Chaim says it’s time to take a look at some of them. He quotes a couple of commandments that come directly from the Bible, that have to do with waging war, both kinetic wars and narrative wars. He thanks his viewers for watching and sharing these videos which is part of waging the narrative wars, while he and his comrades are engaged in the kinetic war in Gaza and elsewhere. He concludes by urging everyone to stay strong and stand tall, because we’re going to win this war.